Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS) Delhi-based partners Abir Roy and T Sundar Ramanathan have left the firm to start-up an independent firm in collaboration with former LKS senior partner S Seetharaman, who left the firm in October.

In the latest bi-annual rankings compiled by consultancy RSG India, AZB & Partners has topped the table ahead of Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) and Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM), which had topped the table in 2015 when still united in one firm as Amarchand Mangaldas before their break-up (see full table below).

Trilegal has represented Ola Cabs owners ANI Technologies before the Competition Commission of India (CCI) against a complaint alleging abuse of a dominant position in Bangalore made by Meru cabs and Fast Track Call Cabs.

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) has hired in its Delhi office’s tax practice Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan senior partner MP Devnath as an equity partner and two of his junior partners: Vivek Sharma as a partner and Abhishek Anand as an associate partner.

/images/uploads/20170508-113211_200.jpgFormer Kolkata-based Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS) and Amarchand Mangaldas partner Niloy Pyne, who joined to US based consulting firm Barret & Averro in 2015, has joined the VFS Global Group as its group general counsel (GC).

Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan (LKS) has been accused by service tax authorities of forum shopping and misleading the the Customs, Excise & Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) by allegedly not disclosing the existence of a live Supreme Court case for the same client on the same issues.